New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof—like many of his American colleagues—is applauding the International Criminal Court’s arrest order against Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for his role in the Darfur conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives. In his Thursday column, Kristof describes the plight of an eight-year-old boy named Bakit who blew off his hands picking up… return to article
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Reader Comments (1)Page 1 of 1 pagesThe fact that no one in power in American journalism is seriously requesting an independent investigation into the Bush/Cheney regime shows intolerance and ethnocentric conduct as well as fear. Our democracy is becoming weak, for censorship is becoming strong. The mainstream media, both print and television remain silent to the Bush administration that mislead the country into war because it is not in the interest of the two dominate political parties to investigate high crimes and misdemeanors and the mainstream media remains obedient, for it appears to be mutually beneficial not to disturb the status quo. It may be party over country with the media following along with no one willing to disrupt a money train.
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